A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*

The wind energy industry would invest billions of dollars in Ohio's wind industry if state legislators make zoning rules more favorable for wind farms, said AWEA Eastern Region Policy Director Andrew Gohn. He praised the Ohio Senate's effort to update the legislation and expressed optimism that the lawmakers would complete the task.

The phaseout of the wind energy Production Tax Credit is accelerating wind development in Wyoming, says Wind Energy Research Center Director Jonathan Naughton. He expects the state to add up to 5,000 megawatts of new installed wind capacity in the next five to seven years.

5 Ways Document Security Goes WrongIf your printer doesn't provide the right protection, your business data is at stake. Document security matters and there are some easily missed ways to lose sensitive files with the wrong printer at the heart of your business. Find out how >

Senvion said it will install a 3.6-megawatt turbine at its RiaBlaes turbine blade manufacturing site in Portugal, providing enough energy to meet 100% of the plant's electricity needs. "If we want the world to go green, we have to be part of the solution in more ways than one, we have to be an example," notes Senior Vice President for Global Blades Paulo Silva.

Can Your SLAs Protect You from Harm?Learn how to set yourself up for SLA success. A well-crafted, service-centered SLA helps make that happen by defining what your customer can fairly expect, and how you plan to deliver that service. The better your agreement, the more you and your clients benefit. Download your eBook now!

Canadian manufacturer Sigma Industries has opened a new 70,000-square-foot factory in Tennessee that will produce composites for the US wind industry, said the company. "It is the first step in our strategy to grow our operations in the US market," Sigma President Denis Bertrand said.

How GE and EMC Raised Sales PerformanceOur new Executive Insights delves into how industrial companies can raise their sales performance and drive more organic growth by taking a page from the playbooks of other leading organizations. Case studies include: EMC, GE and Grainger. Read White Paper

DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, two Michigan-based utilities, have partnered with Clean Energy, Healthy Michigan to set a new 50% by 2030 goal for clean energy, according to the groups. "Michigan wants clean energy, and we saw support across the state from the moment we started this campaign," said Clean Energy, Healthy Michigan campaign manager John Freeman.

Optimize IT, reduce costs and complexity, and increase efficiencyImprove IT with policy-driven automation to increase efficiency by standardizing operating systems so they're easier to manage.Watch this video to learn how your IT organization can automatically balance workloads, simplify management of workloads—both on-premise and in the public cloud.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management launched a public comment period to gather more input on advancing offshore wind development on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf on April 6. It has extended the deadline for submitting comments from May 21 to July 5.

No partisan divide on wind support, young Americans overwhelming in preferences

A slew of surveys across 2016 and 2017 found Americans across the board supported the growth of wind energy. Now we have our first evidence from 2018 that this support continues to increase, and that we have a true rarity in today's political environment coming into focus -- there is no meaningful partisan divide in the country's preference for wind. Read more.

These stories were selected and summarized by independent editors at SmartBrief Inc., not by AWEA's staff, and do not represent AWEA positions. They reflect the variety of daily coverage of American wind power.

The above links are all to the e-book versions of these chapbooks.
For paperback versions and to view a listing of all my books as they are released click
HERE: Dan Stafford's Poetic Universe

Site Meter

*NOTE* Before moving the Zephyr to this domain on blogspot, the original blog hosted at Whizzyrds.com/Windblog.html had over 88,000 visits, and was receiving about 25-100 visits per day since May, 2003.
I am moving the old site meter to this space, and it will continue to report hits on the OLD blog site:

I believe I had around 200,000 total hits or so on this blog before Sitemeter went defunct.

Total Pageviews

FeedBurner FeedCount

Zephyrcast Logo

Home of the GL Zephyr-cast!

Standard GL Zephyr Interview Questions

Work in the Environmental industry, especially in the Great Lakes region? Have your say-so on the state of the industry and present your own views on the GL Zephyr!
Interview Questions

About Me

Happily married with two grown children out on their own, I've had extensive life experience in many areas. I consider myself a Progressive, and I strive to make the world a better place for those around me and those who'll follow after us. I am an Air Force Veteran, and I have been a Telecommunications Technician since 1993, with a Vocational Diploma in Aircraft Electronics. My interests are Environmentalism, Science, Social Justice, Poetry and Music, Reading, Karate, and learning Spanish. I'm originally from Southern Wisconsin, and have lived in the Chicago Metro area (Naperville, Plainfield, & Oak Brook) since late 1997. Moved to Temecula, CA January of 2015.

Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine. The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential. Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you. Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperaturedifferential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact isrecognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousandsof them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it onagriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The landfootprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuatingfuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drasticallybased on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of goodmanufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it'smore "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for usright around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to havea huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."

Followers

Side Bar Links

Dan Stafford - PublisherClick on this pic to e-mail Dan.WE WELCOME ENERGY STORY SUBMISSIONS!
Please note the E-mail link by the title of the webpage. Comments, stories, and article submissions are welcome.
Any accepted submission entitles the submitter to a link on the Journal page included at the bottom of their submitted entry when published to the journal.
The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal makes no claim as to the accuracy of submitted material. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal neither endorses nor opposes opinions expressed in submitted material. Submitter must provide
name, city, and state or country. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal imples no promise to publish all submissions. Adult content will definitely NOT be published.
Submitted material will be screened and appropriate entries published at the owner's discretion.

Safe, healthy, good for the economy, good for the environment, good for farmers, good for you, and just downright good produce:

I strongly encourage those seriously interested in learning about the technology, players, politics, and issues of Wind Energy to spend time browsing the
American Wind Energy Association website. They are the premier industry trade organization and have extensive resources available.
(www.awea.org)